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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago

Lost connection for a short time....

Did anyone else lose their connection for about ten or twelve minutes around 1:00AM EST on 8/28?  No weather here or at my gateway, and my signal strength was great, but I lost connection to the gate...
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MarkJFine
Professor
7 years ago

Was a geomagnetic storm on the 26th, with K-indeces between 5 and 7. Slight recurrence between 15-21UT yesterday afternoon.

 

I also noticed a short outage last evening, but it was well after 21UT. More like closer to midnight-1ish UT. I just assumed a rain storm was coming because it looked real greenish-orange out at sundown. But now in retrospect, it could have very well been a daytime aurora (if that's even possible).

 

Could also have been a result of Jose Mourinho losing 3-nil to Spurs... at Old Trafford. Lol

 

Edit: If you ever need a resource: http://www.spaceweather.com/

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    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    7 years ago

    Very cool site, Mark.

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV
    7 years ago

    MarkJFine

     

    I figured it might be something like that.  It's too coincidental that both systems were being affected within hours of each other.  

     

    Very interesting.